Rick Doblin recently received
his Ph.D. in Public Policy from Harvard University, with a dissertation focused
on the regulation of the medical uses of psychedelics and marijuana.

Rick is the founder and president
of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic
Studies in Sarasota, Florida. M.A.P.S. is a scientific and educational non-profit
organization chartered to foster medical and scientific research on psychoactive
drugs, primarily MDMA.

Rick was also the co-founder and
president of the Earth Metabolic Design Laboratory, a scientific and educational
non-profit organization which coordinated testimony of medical and scientific
community before a Drug Enforcement Administration Administrative Law Judge in
support of efforts to place MDMA in Schedule 3.